Coverdale / Page (Album)
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Publication |
March 15, 1993 |
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admission |
1991-1992 |
| Label (s) | EMI Records (Europe), Geffen Records (USA) |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
61:10 |
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David Coverdale , Jimmy Page, Mike Fraser |
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Studio (s) |
Little Mountain Sound Studios, Criteria Studio, Abbey Road Studios , Hook City |
Coverdale / Page is the only music album by the British blues rock band Coverdale / Page . It appeared in 1993.
Emergence
In 1991 David Coverdale, formerly singer of Deep Purple and Whitesnake , and Jimmy Page, formerly guitarist of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin , decided to record a joint album. They wrote numerous tracks together, seventeen of which were fully arranged and recorded from the fall of 1991 to the early winter of 1992.
The “ Little Mountain Sound Studios ” of the Canadian producer Bruce Fairbairn in Vancouver ( Canada ) and the “ Abbey Road Studios ” in London (Great Britain) were used for the recordings. Further recordings took place in Miami ( Florida ; "Criteria Studios") and in Hook City ( Nevada ; "Highbrow Productions"). In addition to the namesake musicians Coverdale and Page, Mike Fraser, the sound engineer for Bruce Fairbairn, was responsible for the production of the album.
When the album was released in March 1993, it contained eleven tracks. The recorded tracks Good Love , Saccharin and Southern Comfort were dropped .
- Cover
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The cover showed a diamond-shaped , fictitious traffic sign with a black arrow pointing upwards on a yellow background . The arrow is apparently intended to symbolize the merging of two paths into one, since in addition to the usual straight line in its center there is another line that joins the main line in an arc. David Coverdale also expressed himself in this direction in interviews.
The traffic sign is shown repeatedly in the booklet for the album. For example, it can be seen between two rows of stored logs and on a cattle pasture, standing in front of the pyramids of Giza , in front of a pile of scrapped cars or in the surf of a sea churned by a storm .
- Singles
Four singles were released in the USA , namely Over Now (number 24 in the "Mainstream Rock Charts"), Pride And Joy (number 1), Shake My Tree (number 3), and Take Me For A Little While (number 15) . However, none of the singles made it into the Billboard Hot 100 . Two singles were released in Great Britain that also made it to the charts, namely Take Me For A Little While (# 29) and Take A Look At Yourself (# 43).
It was suspected at the time of the album's release that Page started the project to tempt his former Led Zeppelin companion Robert Plant , who had been reluctant to work with Page again. In interviews from this time, Plant mostly mocked the collaboration between Page and Coverdale.
The album was re-released in 2001.
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The reactions to the album were different, but mostly positive. The comparison to Led Zeppelin was often tried, which was also accurate. Stephen Thomas Erlewein from the Allmusic.com website recognized that “ everything about Coverdale / Page is an attempt to capture the pompous majesty of Led Zeppelin. Of course this doesn't work, but the album leaves all other Zep clones in the dust . "
Audio magazine wrote:
“ What was left of the Led Zeppelin songs from the box set, Jimmy Page recently mixed up for another box. That apparently inspired the guitarist to start a project with David Coverdale, ex-shouter at Deep Purple and Whitesnake. It roars almost as brutally as Robert Plant once did, confusingly at times (Pride & Joy). Even a power ballad like Take Me For A Little While walks the line between the day before yesterday and today. Not only those who miss Led Zep will get their money's worth with the two full-juice rockers. "
The German magazine Rock Hard awarded 9 points for the album and ruled:
“ The result was roughly the mixture of both backgrounds that was most likely from the start. Sometimes the story stomps straight through the landscape à la "Slide It In", topped by the inimitable Coverdale shredded song, sometimes the grooves from John Bonham's patent list dominate in connection with the capricious squeezed out, mystical page leads. The melodic alignment of the numbers (consistently good to first-class songs) represents a successful symbiosis between the "commercial" vein of Coverdales and the, as always, slightly gritty Zeppelin touch. "
In Canada, Coverdale / Page was awarded a platinum record for more than 100,000 albums sold, and in the US it received the award for more than 1,000,000 albums sold.
Track list
All titles were written by David Coverdale and Jimmy Page.
- 4:50 - Shake My Tree
- 5:15 - Waiting On You
- 6:17 - Take Me For A Little While
- 3:32 - Pride and Joy
- 5:22 - Over Now
- 4:10 - Feeling hot
- 5:51 - Easy Does It
- 5:02 - Take A Look At Yourself
- 7:52 - Don't Leave Me This Way
- 6:00 am - Absolution Blues
- 6:54 - Whisper A Prayer For The Dying
Participating musicians
- David Coverdale: vocals
- Jimmy Page: electric guitars , acoustic guitars , bass , dulcimers
- Denny Carmassi: drums
- Jorge Casas: Bass
- Ricky Phillips: Bass
- John Harris: Harmonica
- Lester Mendez: Keyboards
- Tommy Funderburk: Backing Vocal
- John Sambataro: Backing vocal
Web links
- Coverdale / Page at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 27, 2011.
- Coverdale / Page at Musik-Sammler.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Led-Zeppelin.org: Led Zeppelin Assorted Info . Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ Billboard single information
- ^ Greg Prato: Coverdale / Page . Vh1 . Archived from the original on December 29, 2007. Retrieved June 27, 2009.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ AUDIO - Magazine for Hi-Fi, High End and Music; April 15, 1993
- ↑ RockHard; Issue 71 (1993)
- ^ CRIA Coverdale Page - March 30, 1993 . CRIA. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
- ↑ RIAA.org Coverdale Page - April 7, 1995 . RIAA. Archived from the original on September 22, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
